中 China Alternatives

Chinese alternatives to OpenAI

7 China-built GPT / o-series models options.

ERNIE 文心一言
alternative to GPT / Gemini
Open source — repository on the product page

Baidu's ERNIE model family; open-weight (4.5) and API.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#6 open weights Apache 2.0
Qwen 通义千问
alternative to GPT / Gemini / Llama / Mistral
Open source — repository on the product page

Alibaba's Apache-licensed Qwen3.8 open-weight family for multimodal, coding and agentic work.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#2 open weights Apache 2.0 256K ctx
GLM (Z.ai) 智谱
alternative to GPT / Claude
Open source — repository on the product page

Zhipu's Apache-licensed GLM-5.3 open-weight models for coding and long-horizon agents.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#4 open weights Apache 2.0 1M ctx
Hunyuan 混元
alternative to GPT / Gemini
Open source — repository on the product page

Tencent's Hunyuan models (text, image, 3D); some open weights.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#7 open weights Custom
MiniMax 稀宇科技
alternative to GPT / Claude
Open source — repository on the product page

MiniMax M2.7 open weights for coding and agentic work; commercial deployment needs authorization.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#5 open weights MiniMax M2.7 Non-Commercial License 1M ctx
DeepSeek 深度求索
alternative to OpenAI GPT / Claude
Open source — repository on the product page

MIT-licensed open-weight multimodal reasoning models, led by V4.1 Flash.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#1 open weights MIT 1M ctx
Kimi 月之暗面
alternative to OpenAI / Claude / Meta Muse / dots / Grok Bot
Open source — repository on the product page

Moonshot's Kimi combines K3 chat and open weights with Agent, Work, Code, Swarm and the always-on Kimi Claw.

  • ✓ Open weights
  • ✓ Self-hostable
  • AI stack
#3 open weights Kimi K3 License 1M ctx